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Sunday, 23 March 2014

SQL Saturday Exeter #269

I attended and helped at the second SQL Saturday in
Exeter held on 21st and 22nd March 2014. The event was bigger than last
year brimming with excellent speakers.

The event was preceded by the SQLSouth West user group
meeting on UDF's. The Precon I attended was excellent on SQL Server 2014 with a
deep dive on new features. The new features covered In-Memory OLTP
(Hekaton), In-Memory DW (Column Store), SysPrep etc.

Uncovering hidden gems in execution plans provided useful
insight with further exploration through sys.dm_exec_cached_plans and
sys.dm_exec_query_plan. There were many other very interesting sessions
covering Data Quality Services, Hadoop for the Microsoft Guy.